h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well the subject line says it all really. How did you do it?
I put myself on it

I wasn't the one who started that map. I just put a link in so I wouldn't lose it .

By the way, You will find my pin in Michigan,USA. Where did you put yours?

Lanzarote, off the coast of North West Africa, near to Morocco and the Sahara desert. Its the most northerly of the Canary Islands.

I spend part of my time on hootoo on a virtual (comic) pirate ship. I believe we went by there one time

Oh, and I gfound your pin

Oh yes this island was a Pirate strong hold. One of the towns has a main street that was a river of blood once, during a particularly nasty bout of Piracy. It was variously owned by half of Europe, abandoned by all of them, suffered from volcanic eruptions, starved during the Spanish Civil War, and now an escape pod used by a lot of strange types


How do you have a virtual Pirate ship?

for the record here is a link to our Pirate ship
F70774?thread=130405?thread=&skip=7120&show=20

If you go to that forum and click on the yellow where it says Winds Force Twelve Abaft the Beam. Pierce put that on hootoo as an article.
Each part of the ship and each excursion from the ship are discussion threads below the article. For example we had a researcher called Lighthouse Girl she started the thread for the ships bar (The Lighthouse Bar). At one time a virtual storm took down the mast that had the crows nest. So for the fun of it I started a thread the Pelican's nest and told the captain the ship wrights had done it.
Even now that is my station on the ship. I am the lookout, stationed in the Pelican's nest.
the ship is currently in Hilo Hawaii.

Hi Shagbark

I hope your nom de plume is not as Pirately as it seems? However, I am old enough to know better, so avast me hearty etc. I might have to arrive by the Improbability Drive. I've never been in conversation with real life/virtual Pirates before.



[do excuse me I think the sun and the have gone to my head]

As to my persona- when I was growing up my dad used to take me out to the country to get nuts that dropped from the shagbark hickory trees.
I actually had the name shagbark here before I ever joined the crew of the pirate ship. It is just a coincidence that it sounds so piratey

Well I have learnt something new! I studied botany ages ago, but of course it was all European trees and plants. I just had a look at pictures and descriptors of the Shagbark Hickory on the web, and saw the 'shaggy bark' so now I understand. I didn't even know that Hickory was a sort of nut!


We have a sort of acer (in the UK), called Paperbark maple (I think it came from Japan originally) which has peeling bark. Its quite small, and used as an ornamental in gardens.

Faningtastic as they say here. Well done Shagbark, it will make a great EG entry, I'm thinking front page.

Yeah, it has been a long time coming. proud

Yes, it was hard work but well done, they are quite fussy arent they in PR. So, have a glass of and a pat on the back!

Hey look


http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A50069955

its a collaboration, but my first go into PR. wish us

LOts of luck, and lots of patience. In PR you need both.

Thanks Shagbark

I am not a patient person, so I've already *told* myself to try and hold my tongue a bit. It will be an exercise in calmness for me, especially when the nitpickers get into action over grammar.

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there are times when you can say " this is my article I am not doing that" but usually you just quietly do what they say.
then there are the 'house rules' like not using periods in names.
When I ran A4142781 thru PR
I ran up against the following
Very few 9th magnitude stars get named after someone; this one did. It commemorates Edward Emerson Barnard (1857 - 1923) who noted its changing position in 1916. Also known as EE Barnard, this American astronomer was a pioneer in astrophotography.
I tried to put that in as E.E.Barnard complaining that EE sounds like it would be pronounced as one sound. You notice I ended up following the house rule and putting it in a s EE

and there are rare occasions where I nit pick the nit pickers
In my shagbark article I put the height at 100 foot (30 metres)
they wanted it to read 100 ft (30 metres)
I told them either I abbreviate both metres and feet or both.
So Gnomon said: if you are not going to mabbreviate then will you change foot to feet. I did and that is how it stands.